Anyone founf a fix for explorer.exe crashing frequently?

I know this is for the 64 bit version of XP pro and I'm running the 32 bit
version (on a 64 bit CPU) but I didn't see any other place to post this
question. I recently had to replace all my hardware short of the hard
drives. I bought and loaded (on a fresh/new hard drive) the 32 bit version
of XP Pro and have been wrestling with an increadibly unstable machine since.

I have tracked it down to explorer.exe which locks up and crashes with great
frequency. Other applications also crash occasionally when attempting to
access the file system. All the drivers are up to date and every diagnostic
tool I can find tells me I have a happy machine.

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I don't know much about hardware but I just finished building my own
computer. One thing always popped up when I was looking for parts . . . it
was "backwards compatible." Is the 64-bit processor backwards compatible
with the 32-bit hardware and software that you installed? I could be
completely off base here but I thought I'd mention it.
--
Denise

~ If you don't know where you came from, you won't know where you're going.

"Don K" wrote:
> I know this is for the 64 bit version of XP pro and I'm running the 32 bit
> version (on a 64 bit CPU) but I didn't see any other place to post this
> question. I recently had to replace all my hardware short of the hard
> drives. I bought and loaded (on a fresh/new hard drive) the 32 bit version
> of XP Pro and have been wrestling with an increadibly unstable machine since.
>
>
> I have tracked it down to explorer.exe which locks up and crashes with great
> frequency. Other applications also crash occasionally when attempting to
> access the file system. All the drivers are up to date and every diagnostic
> tool I can find tells me I have a happy machine.
>
> Does anyone have any helpfull suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Don

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Explorer.exe is Windows, or at least the portion of it that allows you to
interact with your computer in the GUI format that we know as Windows.
The 64bit processor is indeed backwards compatible, what you have is
probably a hardware issue, not enough information really to venture a guess
as to exactly which piece though, if you could post any error codes you're
receiving along with the layout of your machine it would be helpful. It
could also be a bad install of XP, I'd start by removing any hardware not
essential to the operation of the machine and see if it's stable at that
point, if it is then start re-adding items one at a time, checking for
instability after each addition till you find the one causing the problem.
If it's not stable with all the non-essential hardware removed I'd go into
the bios and load the Failsafe Defaults and see how it ran. As a last resort
I'd backup any important data that you don't already have backed up and
either attempt a Repair install by booting with your XP cd and choosing the
repair option after you hit F8 or i'd wipe the drive and start fresh with a
new install and see if that solved the problem.

--

Dshai

Life is only limited by those living it...

"Don K" <Don > wrote in message
news:...
>I know this is for the 64 bit version of XP pro and I'm running the 32 bit
> version (on a 64 bit CPU) but I didn't see any other place to post this
> question. I recently had to replace all my hardware short of the hard
> drives. I bought and loaded (on a fresh/new hard drive) the 32 bit
> version
> of XP Pro and have been wrestling with an increadibly unstable machine
> since.
>
>
> I have tracked it down to explorer.exe which locks up and crashes with
> great
> frequency. Other applications also crash occasionally when attempting to
> access the file system. All the drivers are up to date and every
> diagnostic
> tool I can find tells me I have a happy machine.
>
> Does anyone have any helpfull suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Don

I had a similar problem with XP86 after installing SP2. I switched to XP64
on the same machine and had no problems with it. With Explorer, I had to
stop it in Task Manager Processes and restart in applications, sometimes 4-5
times a day. Never did get it figured out.

"Dshai" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Explorer.exe is Windows, or at least the portion of it that allows you to
> interact with your computer in the GUI format that we know as Windows.
> The 64bit processor is indeed backwards compatible, what you have is
> probably a hardware issue, not enough information really to venture a
> guess as to exactly which piece though, if you could post any error codes
> you're receiving along with the layout of your machine it would be
> helpful. It could also be a bad install of XP, I'd start by removing any
> hardware not essential to the operation of the machine and see if it's
> stable at that point, if it is then start re-adding items one at a time,
> checking for instability after each addition till you find the one causing
> the problem. If it's not stable with all the non-essential hardware
> removed I'd go into the bios and load the Failsafe Defaults and see how it
> ran. As a last resort I'd backup any important data that you don't already
> have backed up and either attempt a Repair install by booting with your XP
> cd and choosing the repair option after you hit F8 or i'd wipe the drive
> and start fresh with a new install and see if that solved the problem.
>
> --
>
> Dshai
>
> Life is only limited by those living it...
>
> "Don K" <Don > wrote in message
> news:...
>>I know this is for the 64 bit version of XP pro and I'm running the 32 bit
>> version (on a 64 bit CPU) but I didn't see any other place to post this
>> question. I recently had to replace all my hardware short of the hard
>> drives. I bought and loaded (on a fresh/new hard drive) the 32 bit
>> version
>> of XP Pro and have been wrestling with an increadibly unstable machine
>> since.
>>
>>
>> I have tracked it down to explorer.exe which locks up and crashes with
>> great
>> frequency. Other applications also crash occasionally when attempting to
>> access the file system. All the drivers are up to date and every
>> diagnostic
>> tool I can find tells me I have a happy machine.
>>
>> Does anyone have any helpfull suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Don
>
>

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